{"id":270821,"date":"2020-10-05T05:15:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270821"},"modified":"2020-10-05T05:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T09:15:12","slug":"duterte-wishes-trumps-speedy-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/05\/duterte-wishes-trumps-speedy-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte wishes Trumps\u2019 \u2018speedy recovery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_131292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131292\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171113-ph-ninal2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-131292\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171113-ph-ninal2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171113-ph-ninal2-1.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171113-ph-ninal2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171113-ph-ninal2-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171113-ph-ninal2-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-131292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and US President Donald Trump share a light moment prior to the bilateral meeting at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on November 13, 2017. ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte has extended well wishes to US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania after they tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing from Boracay, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after the White House announced on Friday that Trump will be hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMalapit na magkaibigan ang ating Presidente at si<\/em>\u00a0President Trump.\u00a0<em>Ang mensahe po ng Presidente<\/em>\u00a0(The President and President Trump are close friends. The President\u2019s message is) he wishes President Trump and his wife first lady Melania a full and speedy recovery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last April, Duterte and Trump spoke over the phone to discuss bilateral cooperation against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was initiated by the US government. It lasted for about 18 minutes. It was cordial and it was about bilateral collaboration on Covid-19 but beyond that I have no authority to divulge any further details,\u201d Roque said on April 20.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s positive Covid-19 diagnosis makes him one of the growing number of world leaders and high-profile politicians to have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p>He has repeatedly claimed that the pandemic would soon end.<\/p>\n<p>One of Trump\u2019s closest advisers, Hope Hicks, had also tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks had accompanied him to the debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday and a campaign rally on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who tested negative for the virus on Friday, also sent &#8220;prayers for the health and safety&#8221; of the Trumps.<\/p>\n<p>Two US senators and more than a dozen members of Congress have also contracted Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte has extended well wishes to US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania after they tested &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270823,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270821\/revisions\/270823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}